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By: Art & Seek on Thursday, August 17th, 2017 at 7:00 am
In his 1989 film “Do the Right Thing,” Spike Lee captured a day in the life in a historically black Brooklyn neighborhood. And his story of racial tension and gentrification is just as relevant nearly 30 years after its debut. This week, we talk about the movie with Brandon Harris, author of “Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City.”... | Read More
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By: Art & Seek on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 at 10:24 am
Good news. It looks like Theatre Three is playing in a new sandbox.
Over the last three years, North Texas theater leadership has experienced an extreme makeover. Five, long-time stage companies have undergone significant, sometimes tragic changes in artistic directors: Stage West (from the late founder Jerry Russell over to Dana Schultes), WaterTower Theatre (Terry Martin to Joanie... | Read More
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By: Art & Seek on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 at 1:05 am
“Oh! We’re having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave
The temperature’s rising, it isn’t surprising,
She certainly can can-can!”
Just like the song, it certainly has been tropical lately in our neck of the woods lately, hasn’t it? Don’t let the sticky weather get you all out of sorts, cool down with some hot art. Whether it’s exhibition at one... | Read More
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By: Art & Seek on Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 at 5:35 pm
This weekend, the youth acting troupe, the Junior Players, hosts a panel discussion about what equity in the arts means for young people — how they can be catalysts for change.
The Junior Players’ “Youth In Arts Panel” is Saturday at Moody Performance Hall (formerly, Dallas City Performance Hall). You can also watch a livestream here at Art&Seek.
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By: Art & Seek on Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 at 9:30 am
It seems like it was just yesterday we were making lists about all the cool things we were going to do this summer, and now here we are–searching the back-to-school bins at Target for a hot pink, zip-up, 3-ring binder. I know what you’re thinking. Where has the time gone?
Don’t worry. There’s still time to do some neato-torpedo stuff before it’s time to... | Read More
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By: Art & Seek on Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 at 8:00 am
Congratulations to Michael M. Kebede of Garland, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. This is Michael’s second time to win the Flickr gold. His last win came back in May. He follows last week’s winner, Christopher Richey of Dallas.
If you would like to participate in the Flickr Photo of the Week contest, all you need to do is upload your photo to our... | Read More
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By: Art & Seek on Monday, August 14th, 2017 at 4:45 pm
Cora Cardona co-founded Teatro Dallas, and she’s led the company for 32 years. So the North Texas arts scene was rocked when the news came out recently that Cardona is stepping down. This is the director who created our first professional Latino company and who regularly brought in theater artists from all over the world.
But Cardona sat down with Art&Seek’s Jerome... | Read More
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By: Art & Seek on Monday, August 14th, 2017 at 11:25 am
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By: Art & Seek on Friday, August 11th, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Photographer Dornith Doherty spent nine years documenting remote seed vaults around the world — and the seeds inside them. She even got inside the so-called doomsday vault, in Norway, near the North Pole, designed to help preserve samples of botanical life in case of worldwide catastrophe.
Her large, ghostly images capture life inside seeds as small as a grain of sand. You... | Read More
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By: Art & Seek on Friday, August 11th, 2017 at 11:28 am
Around North Texas, artists, cities and educators have been talking about cultural equity – who controls the resources for arts in our community, who has access to those resources, how decisions about them effect under-served communities. Young people are often missing from that conversation. But Junior Players hopes to change that. And you can join in.
A group of educators and... | Read More
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